Prince Christoph of Hesse

Prince Christoph of Hesse (14 May 1901-7 October 1943) was the son of Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse and Princess Margaret of Prussia. Christoph was an SS officer, and he died in a plane crash during World War II.

Biography
Prince Christoph of Hesse was born in Frankfurt, German Empire in 1901, the son of Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse and Princess Margaret of Prussia. His two eldest brothers both died in World War I, and his father was supposed to have taken the throne of Finland in 1918, only for the republican forces in Finland to win the parliamentary elections and put an end to any chance of a monarchy ruling over Finland. Christoph would serve as a director in Nazi Germany's Ministry of Air Forces, as Commander of the Air Reserves, and as an SS Oberfuehrer, but he had become disenchanted with the Nazi Party at the time of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942. After the Allied invasion of Germany, he was recalled home, but he died in a plane crash near Forli, Italy in 1943.